Pumpkin — 4″ (31 x 31) pattern

For the last pattern in the Fall Banner project, you get to choose the one you like best.

When I first thought up the project idea I had already designed the pumpkin. After I started laying out my squares, however, I realized the pumpkin was the only one that was an outline—rather than a filled-in shape. I thought the outline didn’t look good with the others.

But then I had new problems.

The pumpkin shape tends to show better on the back of the square

I redesigned the filled-in pumpkin several times and nothing looked good. I realized I was still using the same colors (orange and green); these didn’t work well on the filled-in pumpkin. After changing colors I got more pleasing results. I like them equally, so I’m posting both (and “Pumpkin Outline” is in the next post). You can choose which one(s) you’d like to use.

INSTRUCTIONS

Make two for the Fall Banner

Please note: the direction of the pumpkin stems changes according to banner side (see photo at the bottom of this post). For each pattern, follow R1-13 no matter which direction you want the stem to go. Stem direction is determined on R14-15.